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Before he arrived, rumors reached Washington that Mendès-France was coming as a sort of Peking Tom, that he would propose U.S. recognition of Red China in exchange for a Red Chinese guarantee to restrain the Viet Minh in tottering Indo-China. In the midst of the rumors. Senator William Knowland interrupted the McCarthy censure debate for a speech on foreign policy (see above). But as matters turned out, there was no cause for alarm: Mendès and Dulles quickly agreed that recognition of Red China was not one of the questions they would discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Salesman's Call | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Silver-haired General J. Lawton Collins, 58, knew that Indo-China was the graveyard of military reputations. In Saigon, at President Eisenhower's behest, to determine whether the demoralized free half of Viet Nam could be saved from the Communists, Collins resisted a newsman's commiserations. "I've already had one military career," he said unworriedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Every Possible Aid | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Lightning Joe" Collins got off to a remarkably confident start. "I have come out to Indo-China," he told a press conference, "to take measures to save this region from Communism. I have come to bring every possible aid to the government of Ngo Dinh Diem and to his government only . . ." Collins was politely telling French and Vietnamese intriguers that Diem, for all his weaknesses, was America's man, and that they had better get behind Diem if they wanted U.S. sympathy or assistance. The Vietnamese national army, he indicated, must give up any thought of a coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Every Possible Aid | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...trepidations in Saigon, Paris and Washington. Saigon's Journal d'Extrème Orient tartly reminded Collins that "the French government will not accept the least disposition to contradict the Geneva agreements." But Collins was not intending to violate Geneva: the U.S. had only 340 men in Indo-China, and these would operate the new training program with officers and noncoms from the 150,000-man French Expeditionary Corps; there would be no military buildup from outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Every Possible Aid | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...their side of the 17th parallel, the Viet Minh Communists were violating Geneva at will. French and U.S. military intelligence confirmed last week that the Viet Minh has equipped two new armored divisions, despite the pledge by both sides that they would not reinforce their armies in Indo-China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Every Possible Aid | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

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